1:07 "no waste" -- did he just say he doesn't poop anymore?
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#522Without going on with the almost certainly absurd claim you can be perfectly healthy, indefinitely, eating one shake.. There does seem to be a lot of interest, I think mostly from people interested in the saving of time and still getting good nutrition. To those people, I highly recommend green protein smoothies. They aren't cheap, really, but they are fast and done right they taste good and will take an otherwise me…
What would you suggest as an alternative to nuts, for those of us who cannot eat nuts?
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#523You know, some of the things that ended up being super successful (Velcro, shopping carts) are the things that a whole bunch of people initially panned and rejected.
I feel pretty confident that this is the case right now. A lot of people here are shitting on these guys for creating something that completely contradicts our notion of nutrition. I for one, support this new venture and wish them the best of luck.
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#524While their high level goals (eliminate hunger, reduce stress on agricultural and environmental resources) are laudable, this project suffers from the same arrogance of doctors in the 1960s who said mother's milk was primitive and could be replaced by artificial formula. Now, in hindsight, we know what a mistake that was, as natural breast milk contained compounds which decreased various cancer and health risks. I ca…
I for one will be sticking to breast milk.
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#525Earlier quoted context omitted.
Study Finds No Benefit From Daily Multivitamin, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/study-finds-no-bene... Is This the End of Popping Vitamins?, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020464450457665...
From your link: “From a practical standpoint, this study does not change the fact that the majority of consumers could benefit from taking an affordable multivitamin,” said Andrew Shao, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs with the council. “It is better to meet these recommendations than not, and consistently taking a multivitamin over the long term could help fill these nutrient gaps and may help con…
You'll often find such mealy-mouthed conclusions in write-ups of studies where the evidence doesn't confirm the author's hypothesis, and especially in anticipation of controversy. (in this case, your quote doesn't come from a study author, I guess)
If there's no benefit on average, then there's no reason to recommend on average (disclaimer: I take a chewy multivitamin because I remember being convinced by evidence that manganese is a bad thing to supplement, and most multivitamins have 2mg of it).
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#526Yes, because a handful of smiley tech nerd kids know nutrition better than professional researchers with decades of experience, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
I'd put more stock in nutrition researchers if their advice was remotely consistent from decade to decade.
Reversed stupidity is not intelligence.
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#527Earlier quoted context omitted.
The linked article states that the price will go down as production scales. Besides, ingredients tend to be cheaper (in dollars) in poorer countries.
So it's going to be manufactured in every single country it's sold? What other products do this?
Pretty much all food products.
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#528- I don't care how much money these guys make out of this
- I don't care what they do to their own bodies
- I do care that they don't have any rigorous testing done before offering this to the public without disclaimers.
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#529Relevant XKCD (the current one!) http://xkcd.com/1215/
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#530- I don't care how much money these guys make out of this - I don't care what they do to their own bodies - I do care that they don't have any rigorous testing done before offering this to the public without disclaimers.
We're smart - the disclaimers aren't necessary. If we weren't smart, they wouldn't help anyway.
I agree they've gotten carried away in their claims and are focusing the pitch on some silly stuff.. for ex I don't think they're going to solve world hunger. But these are criticisms of this particular pitch, and don't change at all the actual product they're pushing: a best effort implementation of medical science's actual nutrition guidelines + some nootropics.